Flushing attachment.



No. 820,795. PATENTED MAY l5, 1906. J. KLEINBAGH 62; K. BAREIS.

FLUSHING ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. 1905.

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JOHN KLEINBACH ANI) KARL BAREIS, OF SPGKANE, WASHINGTON.

FLUSHING ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application iled May 29, 1905. Serial No. 262,831.

T0 (1J/Z whom, it may con/cern:

Be it known that we, J oI-IN KLErNBAor-r and KARL BAREIs, both citizens i of the United States, and residents of Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented a new and Improved Flushing Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to fiushing attachments, and especially to those applicable to water closets. provide a device of this character' which may be attached t0 any ordinary form of closet or installed without alterations therein.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters denote similar parts in the several views. j

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of our invention applied to a watercloset. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the attachment, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a modified form of the improvement.

1() designates a water-closet bowl which is provided witha seat 11,hinged at the rear. It has connected with it a flush-tank 12, provided with a valve, only the lever 13 of which is shown.

Our improved attachment comprises a standard 14, which is tubular, it being conveniently formed from a section of pipe and is supported in a substantially vertical position by a base 15, into which it is shown as threaded. This base may be screwed to the floor in proximity to the bowl in connection with which the attachment is to be used.

Movable in the standard is a rod 16, having at its upper extremity a projection in the form of a head 17 extending at one side beneath the seat of the closet. Carried by the rod within the standard, it conveniently bein screwed upon a threaded portion 18, is a co lar 19, from one side of which a projection 2O extends through a vertical slot 21 in the wall of the standard. The projection 20 has at its under side a curved face 22, which converges to a straight horizontal face 23 at its upper side. The rod is normally forced upwardly to raise the seat from the bowl, as is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, by means of a spring 24, situated within the standard and contacting at its lower end with ahead 24a, closing the bottom of the standard, and at its upper end with the collar 19.

Mounted upon the standard is a bracket 25,

Its principal objects are tohaving clamping-arms 26, which encircle the standard and have outturned portions 27,

through which is threaded a screw 28, serving to draw these portions toward one another to clamp the bracket in place upon the standard and to permit of its vertical adjustment. Fulcrumed upon the bracket is a lever 28, provided with a curved upper face 29 for contact with the face 22 of the collar projection and with an opposite face 30, which engages the straight face 23. An outwardly and downwardly extending arm 31 of the lever has an opening 31'LL to permit the attachment of a Aflexible member or chain 32. This chain passes over a guide-pulley 33, rotatable upon a bracket 34, secured upon a convenient surface below the tank.` From this pulley the chain extends to the lever of the valve, to which it is secured.

As is shown in Fig. 1, the spring holds the rod projection above the lever, and the weight of the arm 3l holds the chain free from slack, but without exerting operating tension upon the valve-lever. When a person occupies the seat of the closet, their weight depresses the rod through the head 17, compressing the spring and bringing the curved face of the rod projection into contact with the similar face of the lever. The latter is forced downwardly and outwardly, slackening the chain and producing no effect upon the valve, this movement permitting the rod projection to pass below the lever. When the seat is relieved of the weight, the rod is raised by the spring, bringing the face 23 of the projection against the cooperating face of the lever. This draws the lever-arm 31 inwardly, tightening the chain and opening the valve to iiush the closet. The 'flow continues until the projection has passed the lever, when the parts resume their normal positions.

Instead of connecting the chain 32 with the lever' 28a by way of the pulley 33, we prefer the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, in which the cha'in32 is connected with one arm of a bell-crank lever 33, having its other arm connected by a chain 32b with the arm 31 of the lever 28a. The pivot 33b of the bellcrank lever ifs journaled in the bracket 34a, and on the said pivot is secured an upwardly-extending rod 33"', on which is adjustably held a weight 331.

By the arrangement described the valve in the hush-tank 12 ,is prevented from closing too fast.

Having thus described our invention, we

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claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination with a Waterecloset bowl having a seat7 and a ushing-tank provided with a valve7 of a standard adjacent to the bowl and provided in its upper end with a vertical slot, a spring-supported rod slidably mounted in the standard and having a projection contacting with the seat, a lug having a square upper face and an inclined lower face and adjustably mounted on the rod and projecting through the slot, a bracket adjustably mounted On the standard, a lever pivoted On the bracket, one end Of said lever having a square lower face and an inclined r 5 upper face for cooperating with the corresponding faces of the lugI and a flexible connection between the Opposite end of the lever and the valve.

In testimony whereof we have signed our zo names to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN KLEINBACH. KARL BAREIS.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE SKAER, HARL J. COOK. 

